v0.17.0

Overview

• Improved check_vmware_alarms plugin
• Bug fixes
• Dependency updates
• built using Go 1.16.5
  • Statically linked
  • Linux (x86, x64)

Added

• Add contrib files coverage for alarms plugin
  • initial coverage of v0.16.0 check_vmware_alarms plugin functionality
  • expanded coverage of new filtering modes
• Add support for specifying multiple datacenters
• Add support for ignoring (or explicitly including) triggered alarms by alarm
  description or name substrings
• Add support for filtering triggered alarms by alarm description substrings
• Add support for filtering triggered alarms by alarm name substrings
• Add support for filtering triggered alarms by specific status keywords
• Add support for filtering triggered alarms by associated entity name
• Add support for filtering triggered alarms by associated entity resource
  pools
• Add test coverage for filtering behavior

Changed

• Dependencies

  • Go
    • 1.16.4 to 1.16.5
  • rs/zerolog
    • v1.22.0 to v1.23.0
  • vmware/govmomi
    • v0.25.0 to v0.26.0

• Linting

  • Re-enable (deprecated) maligned linter
  • Disable fieldalignment settings
    • until the Go team offers more control over the types of checks provided
      by the fieldalignment linter or golangci-lint does so.

• Datacenters handling

  • reverse the decision to fallback to the default datacenter if the
    specified list is not found and instead consider any missing requested
    datacenter names as a CRITICAL error

Fixed

• Invalid logic when filtering by acknowledged state
• README and command definition incorrectly uses a flag in the "show
  everything" example
• Virtual Hardware check documentation outdated

References

• See the v0.17.0 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information.